From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 9 10:01:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA20055 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:01:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from terra.oscs.montana.edu (terra.oscs.montana.edu [153.90.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA20043 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:01:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ashworth@cs.montana.edu) Received: from esus.cs.montana.edu by terra.oscs.montana.edu (5.65/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA12520; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 11:01:06 -0700 Received: from localhost by esus.cs.montana.edu (5.65v4.0/1.1.10.5/06Mar97-1051AM) id AA03939; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 11:01:04 -0700 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 11:01:03 -0700 (MST) From: Justin Ashworth To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Uptime Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What all goes into the load averages displayed by the uptime command? As far as I can tell, the uptime has no theoretical upper limit, but there is a certain max that it hits where simple processes would take 50+ times as long to run. Does this value scale with the processor? In other words, would the uptime on a 486-66 equal the uptime on a Pentium-120 running the same processes? Thanks... Justin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Justin Ashworth, CS Student Montana State University justin@ashworth.org Bozeman, MT http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth http://www.montana.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~